When designing a book, every time I make a substantial amount of edits or add photos, it shifts all pages after it through smart reflow (which is great); HOWEVER, once the edits are done, part of my proofreading workflow is to then to manually. reassign CO master pages to chapter openings, "blank" to any blank verso pages preceding them, and Text to the pages that were shifted to the blank- and CO-assigned pages.

This happens EVERY TIME I make edits, and adds a SUBSTANTIAL amount of time to my workflow--unnecessarily, I believe.

I put this request on the InDesign forum to see if maybe there was a already a solution of which I was unaware, but even the experts weren’t able to offer a more efficient idea than manually reassigning the pages. Discussion can be found here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-assign-master-pages-to-certain-pages-and-quot-lock-quot-them-so-reflow-doesn-t-move-them/td-p/14990755

What I’d like to see:

Once a page is assigned a parent page, it can be “locked” to that parent page, keeping the assignment regardless of any reflow that moves the page.

It would be a bonus if pages could also be “unlocked”, or able to change page assignment if certain conditions are met, e.g., verso pages that are assigned “blank” because the preceding chapter ends on a recto page could become “text” pages if any text is added to them during reflow AND they precede a chapter opening paragraph style.

This would be a real timesaver for me! Thanks!